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persists
«The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away»
«Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.»
Author: Sydney J. Harris
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Democracy,
Power
| Keywords:
asking, persists, powers, The Powers That Be
«When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, if afterward persists by itself, needing no effort to maintain it since no one attacks it. Those who at first rejected it as false come in the end to adopt it as accepted, and even those who still at the bottom of their hearts oppose it keep their views to themselves, taking great care to avoid a dangerous and futile contest.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
adopt, afterward, at the bottom, contest, futile, great care, heart attack, heart attacks, needing, oppose, persists, rejected, views
«Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.»
«What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
arguments, fair, fair hearing, hearing, hearings, intelligent, lunacies, lunacy, lunatic, persisting, persists
«In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for ''finding himself.'' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.»
Author: Thomas Merton
| Keywords:
analysis, fails, in the last analysis, of his own, persists, responsible, responsible for, shifted, shifting, shifts, Somebody else
«The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Progress,
Reason,
World
| Keywords:
adapt, adapting, adapts, depends, persisting, persists, reasonable, Reasonable man, unreasonable
«A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit to the race in general»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
benefit, Be Free, doses, dosing, drugs, in general, persists, plain, warning